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“I agree with Freydis that, for various reasons, nobody ever, quite, knew Manuel well. The hero of "The Silver Stallion" is, thus, no person, but an idea, — an idea presented at the moment of its conception... I mean, of course, the idea that Manuel, who was yesterday the physical Redeemer of Poictesme, will by and by return as his people's spiritual Redeemer.”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And therefore to-day is thrilling With a past day's late fulfilling; And the multitudes are enlisted In the faith that their fathers resisted, And, scorning the dream of to-morrow, Are bringing to pass, as they may, In the world, for its joy or its sorrow, The dream that was scorned yesterday.”
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Reading New Books" (1825)
“Yes, today we have genuine Russian weather. Yesterday we had Swedish weather. I can't understand why your weather is so terrible. Maybe it is because you are immediate neighbours of NATO.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At a Swedish-Soviet summit which began on March 30, 1956, in Moscow. The stenographed discussion was later published by the Swedish Government, as quoted in Raoul Wallenberg (1985) by Eric Sjöquist, p. 119
“Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5th Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland (8 August 1971)
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In America we are such rowdies in church and state and the very boys are so soon ripe, that I think no philosophical skepticism will make much sensation. Spinoza pronounced that there was but one substance; yea, verily, but that boy yonder told me yesterday he thought the pinelog was God, and that God was in the jakes. What can Spinoza tell the boy?”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.”
Pat Buchanan (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.”
Bill O'Reilly (commentator) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
John Adams (1735–1826) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the decision to proclaim independence from British rule, which was made on 2 July 1776, in a letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776), published in The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence (2007) edited by Margaret…
“Chater: You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening! Septimus: You are mistaken. I made love to your wife in the gazebo. She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander.”
Tom Stoppard (1937–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
“Yesterday morning, four large German cruisers, it being foggy, appeared off the east coast of Yorkshire about 8.0 o'clock, & shelled Hartlepool & Scarborough for 40 minutes, doing considerable damage, killing about 40 women, children & civilians and maiming & wounding about 400. This is German kultur.”
George V (1865–1936) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry on the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby (17 December 1914), quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign (1953), p. 257
“procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday”
Don Marquis (1878–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern disillusion is unlikely to last forever, and nothing rings so hollow as the angst of yesterday.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mathewson pitched against Cincinnati yesterday. Another way of putting it is that Cincinnati lost a game of baseball. The first statement means the same as the second.”
Damon Runyon (1880–1946) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York American (July 16, 1911); reproduced in The Greater New York Sports Chronology (2009)
“Yesterday’s seer is today’s bore.”
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If yesterday marked the five month anniversary of the darkest day in American history, today — the Day After — must mark the anniversary of one of the greatest days in American history: because on September 12, a bruised and battered nation began to fight back. Some fought back by rushing to aid and rescue the few surviving victims of the tragedy — and to aid and comfort the grieving and bereaved.”
“Yesterday in that dog lifted his leg on a tree that was 20 feet across, 80 feet high and a 1,000 years old — what's left in life for that poor dog?”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Circa 1961, dining at Enrico's in San Francisco with a group including and (presumably a brief stopover made during the westernmost portion of the road trip described in ), prompting Gossage's tentative reply, "W-w-well…
“There’s a big cocktail party on Martha’s Vineyard. Someone comes up to this writer, I think it’s Joseph Heller, and says, “Joe, see that guy over there? He’s a hedge fund manager, and he made more money yesterday than you made on all the books you have ever published.” Heller looks over, pauses, and says, “Yeah, but I have something he’ll never have: enough.”
Joseph Heller (1923–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN "Money" Magazine, April 2007, p. 97
“One day when Pooh was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore, because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.”
A. A. Milne (1882–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon”
Thom Yorke (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in How They Work In Indiana : Business-Education Partnerships (1994) by Andrew L. Zehner (1994), p. 3
“Yesterday you beat about the bush on the Jewish question. I know why. Please don’t object. We don’t want to deceive each other. You are an anti-Semite as I am. You don’t yet want to admit this to yourself. The Jew can at best exist in Communism. The Jew in a national-Bolshevist state is an absurdity.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nationalsozialismus oder Bolschewismus? (National Socialism or Bolshevism), open letter to “My Friends on the Left,” Nationalsozialistische Briefe (National Socialist Letters), (Oct. 15, 1925); Nazi Ideology before 1933…
“That's what the democratic parties personify: business groups! Nothing more. 'Weltanschauung? What kind of reactionary expression is that? Honor, loyalty, creed, convictions? Man, you are living in yesterday!'”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you remember, your President Nixon? Do you remember, the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday?”
David Bowie (1947–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went to the Home Depot yesterday, which was unnecessary; I need to go to the Apartment Depot. It's just a bunch of guys standing around going "Hey, we ain't gotta fix shit.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Actually, just look at what Osam- Barack Obama said just yesterday. Barack Obama calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq.”
Mitt Romney (born 1947) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: While campaigning in Greenwood, SC; 2007-10-24, quoted in {{citation
“Now, I mentioned yesterday at the town hall -- like America’s first President, George Washington, he understood that democracy can only endure when it’s bigger than just one person. So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Rajoy of Spain After Bilateral Meeting (10 July 2016)
“It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.”
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to question on his feelings about the atomic bombings, while visiting Japan in 1960.
“In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope — nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversation with Charles Andrews (1 January 1933), quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma (2000).
“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.”
David Icke (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went shopping with Danielle yesterday, and we were in a bookstore. And this woman actually said, "Look, Russell Crowe reads— who'd have known?”
Russell Crowe (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'One to the other / Unos á otros' - Thus goes the world. We mock at and deceive each other. He who, yesterday, was the ball, is to-day the horseman in the ring. Fortune directs the feast, and distributes the parts according to the inconstancy of its caprice.”
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: title of Capricho no. 77 and Goya's inscription on this plate; from Paul Lefort, in Francisco Goya: etude biographique et critique, suivi de l'essai d'un catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre grave et lithographe; published …
“Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find this guy [Michael Berg] despicable. Everything in me says that. The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is really — one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this — what did he call it? — a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...I said yesterday on Fox & Friends, I think the president is a racist, I think he has race issues. Don't know if he hates white people, but there's something going on with the president. Well, I stand by that. And I deem him a racist based on really his own standard of racism, the standard of the left.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders
“Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.”
Dudley Moore (1935–2002) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview, The Independent (14 October 1995).
“Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.”
“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.”
Gordon Brown (born 1951) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prime Minister's Questions, 11 February 2008
“I found out yesterday there really is a place called Bumfuck, Egypt. And the only way to get there is to go up Shit Creek.”
“To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.”
Theodore Kaczynski (1942–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, your father and Bartolo They have fallen And yesterday they fought and fell But in the quest for joy and freedom And in the struggle of this life you'll find That there is love and sometimes more Yes, in the struggle you will find That you can love and be loved alsoForgive me all who are my friends I am with you I beg of you, do not cry”
“Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one in the world could have ever been like you were yesterday -- except maybe Bobby -- We are going home now -- Your phone was busy.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source